Migraine is a draining
condition for its sufferers. It is expensive in terms of
pain, money, and pharmacological use need. Drugs remain
the “gold standard” of care. Patients often request choices from their
migraine healthcare providers for non-pharamacological alternatives.
Manchester migraine sufferers want options!
Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries proposes that exercise may be one
such positive option.
EXERCISE FOR CHRONIC PAIN
Migraine is, for most Manchester migraine sufferers,
a chronic pain condition. It is not usually a one
time condition. Chronic pain affects
the nervous system as well as the specific pain-generator. Researchers explained evidence that exercise helps a
variety of chronic pain conditions including migraine directly and indirectly
with an aim to change the cycle of pain,
sedentariness, and degenerating disability. These
changes do not come overnight. They come with
long-term, consistent, individualized exercise resulting
in improvement in pain and function. (1) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries tells
our Manchester chiropractic patients with all sorts of
conditions that it’s slow and steady commitment that results in desired
outcomes.
EXERCISE FOR MIGRAINE BEING STUDIED
Researchers and migraine sufferers alike hold out hope for an easy, low-cost approach to migraine care. For
example, a recent comparison study of
neck-specific exercise set against sham ultrasound to decrease
the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. (2) A new meta-analysis
in Headache stated that aerobic exercise for migraine patients
dropped the number of migraine days. (3) These are valuable
outcomes for Manchester migraine treatment.
EXERCISE BENEFITS: Overall and Migraine Specific
Manchester chiropractic patients are often
urged to exercise. Exercise appears to be a endorsed
panacea for everything from back pain to migraine to depression to neck pain
and so much more. Why? It works. Exercise stifles inflammation
via reduction of inflammatory modulators (many cytokines) and stress hormones
(growth hormone and cortisol). Exercise positively influences
the microvascular system that certainly affects
a certain type of cortical spreading depression. Migraine specifically, exercise helped migraine self-efficacy by permitting
the migraine sufferer to have a sense of control which reduced
migraine burden. How much exercise does this?
“Sufficiently rigorous aerobic exercise” brought about statistically
significant decrease in migraine frequency, intensity and
duration. That’s welcomed by Manchester
migraine sufferers! Of course, higher intensity exercise seems
to bring about more benefit. Pharmacological drugs like topiramate were
noted to be better than exercise, but including
exercise into its use was suggested to be beneficial. Migraine sufferers
who also experience neck pain or tension headache are reported as
benefiting from exercise. Low impact is worthwhile
if high impact exercise is not doable. (4) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries concurs
with the researchers’ bottom-line: exercise is a practical
evidence-based recommendation for migraine prevention.
CONTACT Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. David Kulla on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares
how he followed The
Cox®
Technic System of Spinal Pain Management for his patient with
migraine which included Cox® Technic spinal manipulation
as well as exercise for appreciated relief by his patient.